Hockey-skate.



W. F. REACH.

HOCKEY SKATE. APPLICATION FI ILED JUNE 15, 1914.

1,130,335. Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

Inventor: VVZZZ Ffleach UNITED STATES PATENT @ETTQE.

WILLIAM F. REACH, OF CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO A. G. SPALDING & BROS. MANFG COMPANY, OF CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

HOCKEY-SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 15, 1914. Serial No. 845,224.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, \VILLIAM F. REACH, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicopee, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hockey-Skates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement upon a hockey skate, in which the support for the heel plate is in the form of a tapered cup, which is in turn supported by the runner frame. The common method is to provide the heel cup with a flange, and rivet the heel plate to this flange. There is a demand for a very light skate, and to meet this demand the parts are made of very thin gage material which frequently gives out under the severe strain applied in hockey games.

It is my aim to materially strengthen the heel plate and its attachment with the heel cup without adding to the thickness of the metal or weight of the material so as to prevent the bending of the plate at its point of attachment with the heel cup.

To this end my invention consists in providing the heel plate with a depression to receive the flange of the heel cup so that the surface is flush, and in addition to the flange upon the heel cup to provide radiating extensions fitting corresponding recesses in the heel plate and ribbing these extensions so as to prevent bending.

In the accompanying drawing, the invention is shown inFigure 1 in plan View; Fig. 2 in side elevation, and in Fig. 3 in sectional view.

The skate proper may be of any ordinary or improved construction. The heel cup is shown at A, and is of tubular tapering shape, as is common, and is provided with a flange bent outwardly, as shown at a. The flange has extensions 6, b and 0, these extensions being ribbed or formed with depressions from the upper surface as shown at (l. The heel flange B is made with a central contour adapting it to fit beneath the flange a, of the heel cup, this flange with its extensions snugly fitting the like depressions in the heel plate so that the top of the flange will form a flush surface with the face of the heel plate. The parts are suitably secured together by being soldered or brazed. The ribbing of the extensions 6, b, and c of the Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

flange of the heel cup are carried into the metal of the heel plate so as to form a very strong structure capable of resisting the great strain to which the partsv are applied.

What I claim is z- 1. In a heel structure for a hockey skate, a heel cup having a flange with radiating extensions, and a heel plate having a depressed center fitting the flange and extensions of the heel cup, substantially as described.

2. In a heel structure for a hockey skate, a tubular heel cup having a flange at its upper end, and ribbed extensions, and a heel plate suitably secured to the heel cup and having a depression corresponding to the flange of the heel cup fitting like recesses in the heel flange, said extensions being ribbed, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM F. REACH. Witnesses:

RAYMOND W. FLEWRY, JAMES F. MOORE.

Copies 0:! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

